MotionDSP promises resampling of images and videos to higher quality

Posted On Jan 26, 2008 at 12:30 am
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High Quality Resampling

Any regular viewer of TV crime dramas like CSI knows that much of the show's technology employed on their hi-def widescreen monitors is either years from reality or the technology wishes of some imaginative screen writer.

Take for instance when of the investigators (who are usually 10 times more attractive than regular people) tells some nerdy Photoshop expert guy to extrapolate a crystal clear license plate number or other relevant detail from typically grainy or blurry photographic images. With just a couple of magical clicks, pixels fall in line and a perfectly legible shot emerges from the obscured original.

If you're wondering if there really is some kind of software out there that can actually do what the crime procedural dramas portray, now there is at least one company making strides to bring CSI-style image and video software to the mainstream.

A tech startup known as MotionDSP has unveiled commercial technology that will improve video and photo quality. What makes MotionDSP stand out from the crowd is who their primary financial backer is. It's not some powerful venture capital firm, or even a Dot Com billionaire throwing money around. MotionDSP's technology has been funded by none other than In-Q-Tel, a venture investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The CIA is known for clandestine spy photos, satellite close-up images and an array of intelligence-gathering tools, and they are of course interested in developing ways to dramatically improve the quality of intelligence photos and videos.

MotionDSP founder and Chief Executive, Sean Varah, recently announced efforts to secure additional private funding to pay for more consumer-based applications of its software.

The intriguing and helpful technology will help not only crime-fighters to find out whodunit, it will also help governmental agencies to gather intelligence and keep its citizens safe.

These video/image resampling techniques will someday possibly turn those grainy, low-grade You Tube and cell-phone quality videos into technology relics of the past like 8-track tapes and Space Invaders.

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